• The Kissing Case was the arrest, conviction and lengthy sentencing of two prepubescent African-American boys in 1958 in Monroe, North Carolina. A white...
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    turn from coss ('a kiss'). Anthropologists disagree on whether kissing is an instinctual or learned behaviour. Those who believe kissing to be an instinctual...
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  • space, a kissing number can also be defined for each individual sphere as the number of spheres it touches. For a lattice packing the kissing number is...
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    had received lengthy reformatory sentences in what was known as the Kissing Case of 1958. Williams obtained a charter from the National Rifle Association...
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    body, without kissing. This modified greeting was adopted by Marxist–Leninist leaders in Asia, which lacks a tradition of cheek kissing as greeting. During...
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  • a false report in about 45 percent of cases. These cases represent only a fraction of the total number of cases because racial hoaxes are not reported...
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    Cheek kissing is a ritual or social kissing gesture to indicate friendship, family relationship, perform a greeting, to confer congratulations, to comfort...
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    3, 2021. Retrieved June 3, 2021. Gaitan, Gisselle (August 3, 2017). "Kiss KissBella Thorne and Blackbear Make It Official By Welcoming a New Member of...
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    civil case against Jowers and unnamed co-conspirators for the wrongful death of King. The case, Coretta Scott King, et al. vs. Loyd Jowers et al., Case No...
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    segregation in American public schools. He won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court, culminating in the Court's landmark...
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  • Till's case became emblematic of the injustices suffered by blacks in the South. Myrlie Evers, the widow of Medgar Evers, said years later that the case "struck...
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    Johnson at the White House on July 2, 1964. In the 1883 landmark Civil Rights Cases, the United States Supreme Court had ruled that Congress did not have the...
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    the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year. The case became bogged down in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit...
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    the Brown vs Board of Education case. U.S. Department of Justice briefs gave only one reason for involvement in cases like this; that segregation harmed...
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    Kissing Case, where two young African-American boys (one aged 9, and one aged 7) had been convicted of rape because a white girl (aged 8) had kissed them...
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    be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1937 case Breedlove v. Suttles. When the 24th Amendment was ratified in 1964, five...
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    efforts to eliminate discriminatory election practices by litigation on a case-by-case basis had been unsuccessful in opening up the registration process; as...
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    publicity, which he had used successfully in the internationally known "Kissing Case" of 1958, as well as nonviolent methods, which he used at lunch counter...
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    9-year-old African American boy who had been kissed by a white girl in an incident known as the Kissing Case. A second African-American boy, aged 7, was...
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  • Brown v. Board of Education (category 1954 in United States case law)
    related cases, paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement, and a model for many future impact litigation cases. The...
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    Kissing Coppers is a Banksy stencil that pictures two British policemen kissing. It was originally unveiled on the wall of The Prince Albert pub in Brighton...
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    The men's bodies remained undiscovered for 44 days. In the meantime, the case of the missing civil-rights workers became a major national story, especially...
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  • boycott began, the Supreme Court and Warren Court decided unanimously, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional...
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    role over the NAACP. Their case against the NAACP was easier, as White and other leaders were second in approaching the case after the International Labor...
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    long been segregated. Evers submitted his application as part of a test case by the NAACP. On November 24, 1954, Evers was named as the NAACP's first...
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  • "Kissing You" (or "I'm Kissing You") is a song by British singer Des'ree. It was written by the singer with Timothy Atack for Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film...
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    and white schools. The Clarendon County case was eventually reworked to become one of several individual cases set up to directly challenge the "separate...
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    FBI entered the case after the men disappeared. They helped find them buried in an earthen dam. The US government prosecuted the case under the Enforcement...
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    the case. On June 13, 1956, the judges determined that the state and local laws requiring bus segregation in Alabama were unconstitutional. The case went...
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    disappearance of the three men was initially investigated as a missing persons case. The civil-rights workers' burnt-out car was found parked near a swamp three...
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